firkin

Example Sentences

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He uses an antique wooden firkin once used for storing flour and sugar to sit on that the older French speaking duck hunters call a “bedon.”

From Washington Times • Jun. 21, 2020

In the flesh, Ruth Davidson, 37, is a firkin of fun, speaks with a machine-gun delivery and can hold her own.

From BBC • Jan. 13, 2016

In the "Cruise of the Rover," in the heat of movement, when the young English sailors after their desperate fight are being dragged to judgment, drink is given them from "a great cool earthen firkin."

From Essays by Benson, Arthur Christopher

Joan Andrews of York, Maine, sold two heavy stones in a firkin of butter.

From Curious Punishments of Bygone Days by Earle, Alice Morse

This dainty way, however, would hardly make a bad article good, and no one would crave a berry of ancient firkin butter.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 by Various